Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

If you've seen the movie, you've got to read the book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. An inspiring book of four young girls growing up together in the mid-1900's. They go through everything together and stay extremely close even in their late years. They have a bond that cannot be broken.

Vivi, Caro, Teensy, and Necie all grow up, get married, and raise children of their own, the "petite Ya-Ya's." The children of Vivi Walker go through more bad than good. Vivi is a very selfish woman who most of the time can't stand her kids. She abuses them both mentally and physically. Sidda, the oldest child, takes it the hardest. As an adult she has many years of therapy under her belt and still can't forgive and forget.

The Ya-Ya's help Vivi and Sidda see to the bottom of it all and reunite. Through them they start to mend things and learn to love again and live in the now.

- Trish Yaden, Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Little Altars Everywhere

The Walker family of Thornton, Louisiana has a bittersweet story to share. Each person wraps you up in their own perspective of how things really were growing up in their small southern town. They dealt with being abused mentally and physically by alcoholic parents and as adults are still carrying these problems with them. Their parents, however, show selfishness, especially their mother who most of the time just wants them to go away so that she can live her life the way it was supposed to be. Other times they show a softer side of what they wish they would've said or done.

Little Altars was a great story that makes you love the characters one chapter and see the truth the next. However, it's written different than most books, each character has their own chapter and they usually talk about the others more than themselves.

Rebecca Wells does a wonderful job making you feel as if you're apart of their lives and leaves you excited to start the next book, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

- Trish Yaden, Assistant Editor-in-Chief

Miss Smithers

Have you ever had the feeling no one understands you or that you just don't fit in?

Miss Smithers inspires us to be ourselves and try anything just once. It is based around a beauty contest that the main character, Alice, has been pushed into. She goes through lots of up's and down's with her family who is against the contest. She tries to find somewhere to belong, the church group, the cool girls and everywhere between.

By the end of the book, Alice realizes that she's great the way she is with the friends that she has and even her crazy family. Miss Smithers is a great book for preteens and teenagers who need just a little push to find out who they really are and what they're all about.

- Trish Yaden, Assistant Editor-in-Chief

A Crack in the Line

Get ready to question the world you thought you were living in. A Crack in the Line really makes you think about the logics and what if's in life.

The main character, Alaric, had a great life until a horrible train crash that killed his mother turned his life upside down. By accident he ends up in another world, a world where his mother is still alive but he never existed. She has a daughter named Naia instead and they're living the life he would be living had his mom not died.

Alaric and Naia figure out they're connected by an object his mother made. They go back and forth visiting each other seeing how the other lives.

With two alternate endings the what if's never stop. It will have you wondering what if about their lives and your own.

- Trish Yaden, Assistant Editor-in-Chief